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Subject: 
IMAP vs MAPI
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:52:23 GMT
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Are the two email type readers IMAP and MAPI different, and, in layman's
terms, how? I'm trying to locate a downloadable IMAP type.

Thanks,
-Tom McD.



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  Re: IMAP vs MAPI
 
(...) Not sure what you mean by downloadable. If you mean you want to download a reader that will do IMAP, Outlook Express does it, as does Eudora 4, although I don't think there is a free version of Eudora anymore, only a trial version of their Pro (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: IMAP vs MAPI
 
(...) IMAP is an e-mail protocol used mainly on UN*X boxes which, among other things, leaves the e-mail message sitting on the server (as opposed to downloading a bunch of messages a la POP3.) MAPI is Microsoft's Messaging API, which is an OLE (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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